Through the Father’s Eyes

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You received a Spirit that shows you are adopted as [God’s] children. With this Spirit, we cry, “Abba, Father.”
- Romans 8:15 (CEB)

Nine years ago when I held my first-born child, Melina, for the first time, I knew I had what had been missing in my life. I knew that there in that hospital with Melina, I was right where God wanted me. Now with five wonderful children, four girls and one...

Today's Prayer

Abba, Father, thank you for adopting us into your family. Help us to love you and to extend your love to others. Amen.

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Romans 8:12-17

12 So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it isn’t an obligation to ourselves to live our lives on the basis of selfishness.13 If you live on the basis of selfishness, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the actions of the body, you will live.14 All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons and daughters.15 You didn’t receive a spirit of slavery to lead you back again into fear, but you received a Spirit that shows you are adopted as his children. With this Spirit, we cry, “Abba, Father.”16 The same Spirit agrees with our spirit, that we are God’s children.17 But if we are children, we are also heirs. We are God’s heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, if we really suffer with him so that we can also be glorified with him.